1.34" Camarasaurus Tooth Crown - Skull Creek

This is a beautifully preserved tooth of the sauropod dinosaur Camarasaurus grandis. Camarasaurus had very distinctive, chisel shaped teeth indicating it probably ate courser vegetation than other sauropods.

The crown is 1.34" with nicely preserved, black enamel. I collected this tooth in the spring of 2014 at the Salt & Pepper Quarry at Skull Creek, near Dinosaur Colorado. This quarry is about to become very famous in the near future, due to a very large discovery which will be announced in the near future. This tooth came from a sandy layer in the quarry about a meter below the layers that contain articulated dinosaur remains. This sandy layer contains teeth and tumbled bones pieces, most likely representing a river channel bottom.